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The ceremonies and rituals of how we mourn are rapidly changing, can be very different across cultures and through generations. We met at an artist transforming the blurry and dull into clear and beautiful. See the full piece here: wgntv.com/backstory/back…

Candy used to be a thing just for the elite. When and where did it become available to the masses? Chicago has a starring role.

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Disney’s “The Skeleton Dance” is famously an animated short produced by Walt Disney in 1929, as part of its Silly Symphony series. But when you look at it today, it’s essentially America’s first music video. We dig into the history in this backstory short.

RT @tvalentino84: @LarryPotash Once again; loved tonight’s show. LeRoy Neiman piece was amazing, informative, and so, so well done. Where…

During World War II, before the world has yet to learn all of what’s going on behind the walls of Auschwitz, a man volunteers to go inside the concentration camp.

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From Playboy to Ali, the Chicago artist who was arguably the father of modern sports art. Meet Leroy Nieman. Check out here for the full piece:

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The late Paul Reubens, AKA Pee Wee Herman, occupied a unique place in American culture. Part performance artist, part comedian, part children’s entertainer. And his dad? A war hero in not one or two but three different countries.

The honeybee is perhaps the lynchpin to planet earth’s entire ecosystem, but their existence is very much threatened. For the whole piece go to WGNtv.com/backstory

In this piece for Backstory, I met a woman with a very personal connection to the Nuremberg trials, who unraveled a mystery left behind after the death of her father. For the whole piece go to WGNtv.com/backstory

She finds a document signed by Abraham Lincoln in the attic. We find dusty old sweaters and family photo albums from the 1970s. What gives? That, and much more, with @LarryPotash @BrhettVickery @pattomasulo and @PaulKonrad.

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MUST WATCH: Last year, @BrhettVickery took @LarryPotash out to experience the Pumpkin Spice craze. This year, she brings him to a corn maze at Kroll's Fall Harvest Farm. 👯 🎃

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Tonight on BACKSTORY - the disappearing bees. A man turns pasture into prairie to restore nature - for all of us. Sun 11pm - repeats earlier time next Sunday.

Tonight on Backstory @WGNTV 11pm two people with a close connection to the Nuremberg trials - as depicted in this great movie.

After an irate Tommy Lasorda complains to the umpires about his antics, the Expos’ Youppi! becomes the first mascot ejected from a major league game.

Russian strikes killed at least 12 people in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday.

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MUST WATCH! @TonyDanza is bringing his live show ‘Standards & Stories’ to the Chicago area this weekend. He joined us to share details about it — and also on his friendship with the one and only Frank Sinatra.

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